Dr Gabriela Jiga-Boy

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Dion Curry

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Phil Reed

• Trust in User Generated Evidence: Human Credibility Judgements to Deepfake and AI Generated Content (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Yvonne Mcdermott Rees

• A meta-scientific approach to understanding stress regulation (awarded 2023)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Irene Reppa

• PS-M80 Generic Research Skills - Research Methods in Psychology

  This module will give students the foundation research methods skills necessary to understand, design and execute research in psychology, and to interpret and report research results. The approach is a focus on research practices that improve transparency and reproducibility. The skills developed in this module include: generating research hypotheses, causal inference, internal and external validity, construct validity, survey methods and questionnaire design, experimental setting and web-based data collection, ethics and fraud, statistical power and research reproducibility, systematic review of the literature, meta-analysis, writing research reports and communication skills (e.g., conference presentations, poster design), single-case methods, and service evaluation/audit. The module comprises of 2-hour weekly lectures. The module will assess how students apply these skills in critical analyses and a research proposal containing the rationale and the methods sections for the students¿ MSc dissertation. By the end of the module, students will have acquired knowledge of the journey from a research idea to data collection, presentation of findings, and journal submission. Students will be asked to read the content provided for personal work and to reflect on the range of research methods. Finally, the role of teamwork and collaborative work in research will be discussed. Instruction will be carried out through seminars, practical exercises, assignments, and discussions.

• PS-M82 Generic Research Skills

  This module will give students the foundation skills necessary to understand, design and execute research in psychology, and to interpret and report research results. The approach is a focus on research practices that improve transparency and reproducibility. The skills developed in this module include: generating research hypotheses, causal inference, internal and external validity, construct validity, survey methods and questionnaire design, experimental setting and web-based data collection, ethics and fraud, statistical power and research reproducibility, systematic review of the literature, meta-analysis. The module will assess how students apply these skills in critical analyses and a research proposal containing the rationale and the methods sections for the students¿ MSc dissertation.

• PS-M91 Generic Research Skills (Forensic Psychology)

  This module will give students the foundation skills necessary to understand, design and execute research in psychology, and to interpret and report research results. The approach is a focus on research practices that improve transparency and reproducibility. The skills developed in this module include: generating research hypotheses, causal inference, internal and external validity, construct validity, survey methods and questionnaire design, experimental setting and web-based data collection, ethics and fraud, statistical power and research reproducibility, systematic review of the literature, meta-analysis. The module comprises of 2-hour weekly lectures. The module will assess how students apply these skills in critical analyses and a research proposal containing the rationale and the methods sections for the students¿ MSc dissertation.

• PS-M95 Research Process

  This module will provide the research methods skills necessary to understand, design and execute empirical experimental research in psychology, and to interpret and report the results, with a particular focus on practices that improve transparency and reproducibility. It will examine the process of causal inference, internal and external validity, construct validity, survey design and web-based data collection, ethics and fraud, statistical power and research reproducibility, and communicating research (e.g., writing principles, oral presentations, poster design, public engagement). The course will assess how students apply these skills in a) critical analysis and planning empirical research that aims to improve completed work, and b) communicating psychology research to a general audience.

• PSY319 Independent Research Project

  Students conduct an independent research project under the supervision of a member of staff. The research topic is decided in conjunction with supervisors and Research topics. Students must design, conduct, analyse and write up a piece of research in order to achieve Graduate Basis for Chartership with the British Psychological Society (BPS). They must also complete an Ethical Considerations Form, showing that they have considered and resolved ethical issues relating to their project, and that they have implemented appropriate best practices for improving the reproducibility of their research.

• PSY319W Prosiect Ymchwil Annibynnol

  Mae myfyrwyr yn cynnal prosiect ymchwil annibynnol dan oruchwyliaeth aelod o staff. Penderfynir ar bwnc yr ymchwil ar y cyd â goruchwylwyr a phynciau Ymchwil. Rhaid i fyfyrwyr ddylunio, cynnal, dadansoddi ac ysgrifennu darn o ymchwil er mwyn cyflawni Sail Graddedig ar gyfer Siarter gyda Chymdeithas Seicolegol Prydain (BPS). Rhaid iddynt hefyd lenwi Ffurflen Ystyriaethau Moesegol, gan ddangos eu bod wedi ystyried a datrys materion moesegol sy'n ymwneud â'u prosiect, a'u bod wedi gweithredu arferion gorau priodol ar gyfer gwella atgynyrchioldeb eu hymchwil.

• PSY325 Independent Research Project - Joint Honours

  Students conduct an independent research project under the supervision of a member of staff. The research topic is decided in conjunction with supervisors and research topics. Students must design, conduct, analyse and write up a piece of research in order to achieve Graduate Basis for Chartership with the British Psychological Society (BPS). They must also complete an ethical considerations form, showing that they have considered and resolved ethical issues relating to their project, and that they have implemented appropriate best practices for improving the reproducibility of their research.

• PSY325W Prosiect Ymchwil Annibynnol - Anrhydeddau ar y Cyd

  Mae myfyrwyr yn cynnal prosiect ymchwil annibynnol dan oruchwyliaeth aelod o staff. Penderfynir ar bwnc yr ymchwil ar y cyd â goruchwylwyr a phynciau ymchwil. Rhaid i fyfyrwyr ddylunio, cynnal, dadansoddi ac ysgrifennu darn o ymchwil er mwyn cyflawni Sail Graddedig ar gyfer Siarter gyda Chymdeithas Seicolegol Prydain (BPS). Rhaid iddynt hefyd lenwi ffurflen ystyriaethau moesegol, gan ddangos eu bod wedi ystyried a datrys materion moesegol sy'n ymwneud â'u prosiect, a'u bod wedi gweithredu arferion gorau priodol ar gyfer gwella atgynyrchioldeb eu hymchwil.

• PSY354 Behaviour Change: Health, Organisations and Advertising

  In recent years, commercial (businesses, advertising companies) and public sector organizations (healthcare providers, governments) have embraced various psychological techniques known as `behavioural insights¿ to implement behaviour change at various levels. But what makes behaviour change effective? How easy or hard is it to change behaviour within a population or an organization? And how does media portray causes of good and bad behaviour and solutions to change what needs to be changed? This class will discuss how theories of behaviour change have evolved: what differentiates models that have stood the test of empirical evidence and those that were `out-data-ed¿. It will examine what it means to achieve effective behaviour change in the domains of public health, organizational culture change, and consumer behaviour (advertising). The class will include practical exercises and case studies on how to design effective behaviour change interventions regarding public health issues or behaviour change interventions in the organizational domain.

• Postdoctoral Research Assistant , Swansea University

  2009 - 2012

• Research Assistant , Cardiff University

  2009 - 2009

• Visiting PhD student researcher , VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  2007 - 2007

• Associate staff, University College London

  2017 - 2021

Ardagh, R. & Jiga-Boy, G.M. (2019). Forme ≠2: Curses. New North Press: London (http://new-north-press.co.uk/product/forme-02/)

Ardagh, R. & Jiga-Boy, G.M. (21 Sep. 2019). ‘Art Lesson’ class. The Saturday School (http://thesaturdayschool.org), a The New York Times x Atlas Obscura collaboration

Jiga-Boy, G.M. (27 Feb. 2017). The Philosopher’s Arms, BBC Radio 4. Producer: David Edwards

Jiga-Boy, G.M. (2016) Pardon my French: The effects of swearing on the speaker. Debate. British Science Festival, Swansea University, UK.

Jiga-Boy, G.M. (26 Nov. 2014) Looking beyond obvious reasons for our behaviour. Invited speaker at Swansea University Women’s Society

Jiga-Boy, G.M. (13 Jan. 2014) Looking beyond obvious reasons for our behaviour. Western Mail

Jiga-Boy, G.M., Chambers, C. & Henderson, M. (29 Jan. 2013) BBC Science café. BBC Wales.

Jiga-Boy, G.M. Deadline I. Frieze d/e, Issue 7, 2012, pp. 28-29.

Featured in: Herbert, W. (May/June 2011). Looming deadlines: How the pressure of a due date distorts our perception of time. Scientific American Mind.

Invited presentation, lecture or conferences;

Back to the future: Can mindfulness modulate future-oriented emotions?

2019 March, Cardiff University, Department of Psychology

(Don’t) Fear the future: When mindfulness fosters concrete futures, but less intense emotions

2017 October, University College London, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

Mindful decision marking? When and how do we use information adaptively?

2015 March, University of Exeter, Social Psychology Group

Adapted decision making: When time, emotions, and values help improve our decisions

2014 January, Plymouth University, UK